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The ancient pre-Islamic warrior poet Antarah ibn Shaddad says in a poem: فَـعَـيـشُـكَ تَـحـتَ ظِلِّ العِزِّ يَوماً وَلا تَــحــتَ المَـذَلَّةِ أَلفَ عـامِ “Living in the shade of glory for a single day, is better than livin...

Mansur asked why the Ummayid Dynasty collapsed? A wise man replied: ‎أمورٌ صغيرة سلمناها لكبار ‎وأمور كبيرة سلمناها لصغار “We entrusted our small affairs to big people, And we entrusted our big affairs to small people.”...

Malcolm X said: إذا قمت بوضع سكين في ظهري تسع بوصات وسحبها لست بوصات ، فليس هناك تقدم. إذا قمت بسحبها على طول الطريق فهذا ليس تقدمًا. التقدم هو شفاء الجرح الذي تسببه الضربة. كما أنهم لم يسحبوا السكين حتى أقل بكثير من شفاء الجرح. لن يعترفوا حتى بوجود...

Do you know why this nation is asleep? - الأمّة النائمة In the past, the women used to breastfeed their children with the intention of them becoming great leaders. That's why they became great and achieved great things....

It is said: ولكل زمان رجال 'And every era has its men.' Every era will produce legends, carrying forward the torch of Islam. This flame will never be extinguished. But every era, also has its losers & traitors. History indicat...

The scholars of the past used to say: إن الله ليزع بالسلطان ما لا يزع بالقرآن "God prevents by means of the SULTAAN (State/authority), what He does not prevent by means of the QUR'AAN." Some people think: if a scho...

"Laws [regulations] are like spiderwebs, they catch the small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." القوانين مثل بيوت العنكبوت، بإمكانها الإمساك بالذباب الصغير، لكنها تسمح للدبابير بالمرور - Jonathan Swift...

A man was praising human achievements, saying: "wow, humans can now fly!!" A wise man, who wasn't impressed, said: فالذباب والبعوض يطيران "Flies and mosquitoes can also fly..." A h...

The illusion of fear ... A group of women were swimming in a lake, and a man came to see them. They swam into the deeper end, saying: "We will not come out until you leave!!" The man, innocently, said:...

Once a sink-hole appeared in a village. A lot of people were falling into it, getting killed & injured. The village elders gathered to find a solution. Instead of filling up the hole, one of the elders suggested: أنا أرى انه نبني مستشفي بجانب...